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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Rupert World ... Lord Moloch’s pal Doug the Diva – driving Washington spare … News UK’s model for unionism … What next for the Washington Post? … Concealed coal lobbyists running an anti-Teal campaign … More corruption busting for Stinging Nettle … The litigation industry spawned by Lehrmann ... Read on >> 

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      Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant ... Israel partially successful in jurisdictional appeal
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      Melbourne barristers Perry and Squirrell pinged for homophobic note posted in Owen Dixon lifts ... Professional misconduct ... "Discreditable" behaviour
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      The arms race for talent has meant that big law firms are at risk of fracturing if they defy Trump
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      Trump's plan to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador ... Raising a finger at SCOTUS
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      Scathing report on the quality and rigour of PLT training for entrants to the legal profession
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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Former senator can't get enough litigation ... Linda Reynolds suing the Commonwealth and lawyers HWL Ebsworth over the Brittany Higgins settlement ... Claim that $2.4 million payment to former staffer affirmed Higgins' allegation ... Statement of claim ... Commonwealth Courts Portal >> 

 

Justinian's Bloggers

Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

Justinian Featurettes

Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Nov152024

Between a Rock Chopper and a Hard Place

• DateFriday, November 15, 2024

Church abuse survivor given the Bird ... High Court and the "agency" of Catholic priests ... No liability for predatory clerics ... How did we get to this? ... What would Peter McClellan think? ... Procrustes on the latest loophole for the church 

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Friday
Nov152024

Don't mention it 

• DateFriday, November 15, 2024

Conferenceville with Justice Lee ... A speech for all occasions ... Mortimer CJ wants a tight rein on the "juicy" stuff ... Lee changes gear at the 11th hour ... Medals for approved reptiles of the press ... Open justice oration gets closed ... From our Media Affairs Roundsperson 

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Wednesday
Nov132024

Judicial Shockers

• DateWednesday, November 13, 2024

Latest from the trouble prone Queensland branch of the Federales ... Administrative law upsets ... Sandy Street overturned ... On the level in Canberra ... Missing aged care accountant ... Law shop managing director skewered ... Ginger Snatch reports from courtrooms around the nation 

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Friday
Nov082024

It's Hitlerish

• DateFriday, November 8, 2024

Reelection of a charlatan ... Republicans take popular vote for the first time in 20 years ... Amnesia ... Trashing a democracy ... Trump and his team of troubled men ... Mainstream media wilts in the eye of the storm ... Depravity, greed and revenge are the new normal ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Thursday
Nov072024

Stockpiling debts to donors

• DateThursday, November 7, 2024

Corruption and all that ... Buying politicians on the cheap ... What's the quid pro quo ... The absurdities of Bridget McKenzie ... Remembering Alastair McAlpine ... School cadets - Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell ... Inspector lifts the skirts ... Procrustes on the beat 

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Wednesday
Nov062024

Huis clos

• DateWednesday, November 6, 2024

Public glare on rape trial in France ... Survivor demands the proceedings be open ... The spectacle of misery ... Unsettling details ... Traumatising complainants ... The case of Gisèle Pelicot ... Hugh Vuillier reports 

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Wednesday
Nov062024

London Calling

• DateWednesday, November 6, 2024

Vitamin D deficiency ... Anti-vax solicitor birched for "friendly warning" to schools ... Budget measures hit private school fee payers and their personal jets ... Robing room "humour" ... Equality and sensitivity training missing in action ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt reports from Blighty 

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Thursday
Oct312024

In due course

• DateThursday, October 31, 2024

A toxic relationship ... A judge prone to boiling over ... Waxing ... Failure to get a grip on child-like temperament ... Pants on fire ... Some of the granular details ... Ginger Snatch reporting 

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Monday
Oct282024

Blue sky litigation 

• DateMonday, October 28, 2024

Another costly Lehrmann decision ... One more spin on the never-never ... Arguable appeal discovered in the bowels of the Gazette of Law & Journalism ... Odious litigants ... Could Lee J have got it wrong on the meaning of rape? ... Calpurnia reports from the Defamatorium 

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